Sod in museum gallery

Sofia Galarza Liu <reina [at] ku__edu> writes

>Have any of you been involved with the installation of dirt or sod
>in a gallery?  What was involved as far as preparations and cleanup?
>What special precautions should be taken?

A spectacular installation is the 20+ year old "Earth Room", by the
artist Walter de Maria, in Soho, NY.  It is just a room of dirt,
plain old dirt, the third such work he has done.

    <URL:http://www.earthroom.org/>

Christopher  Gray
Office for Metropolitan History
246 West 80th Street, #8, NYC  10024
212-799-0520
Fax: 212-799--0542


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